Explain why apparatus for laboratory preparation of hydrogen should be air tight and away from a naked flame?

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Hydrogen gas is almost insoluble in water,it can be collected by displacement of water using an inverted apparatus. Hydrogen is highly explosive when mixed with air. Hydrogen is explosive when mixed with air so burns with explosion near the mouth of gas jar but burns out inside the jar because the burning requires the presence of oxygen which in not present inside the jar.

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Give reasons :

(a) Hydrogen is collected by the downward displacement of water and not of air, even though it is lighter than air.

(b) A candle brought near the mouth of a jar containing hydrogen gas starts burning but is extinguished when pushed inside the jar.

(d) Apparatus for laboratory preparation of hydrogen should be air tight and away from a naked flame.

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